Modelling relationship between entities in real‐world systems with a simple graph is a
standard approach. However, reality is better embraced as several interdependent …

Communities can intuitively be defined as subsets of nodes of a graph with a dense
structure in the corresponding subgraph. However, for mining such communities usually …

Social interactions at the playground have been represented as a rich learning opportunity
to hone and master social skills at preschool years. Specifically, all forms of social play …

Social media is the key component of social networks and organizational social
applications. The emergence of new systems and services has created a number of novel …

Collaborations are essential in research, especially in answering increasingly complex
questions that require integrating knowledge from different disciplines and that engage …

Social media and social networks have already woven themselves into the very fabric of
everyday life. This results in a dramatic increase of social data capturing various relations …

The prediction of new links in social networks is a challeng-ing task. In this paper, we focus
on predicting links in net-works of face-to-face spatial proximity by using information from …

Temporal dynamics of social interaction networks as well as the analysis of communities are
key aspects to gain a better understanding of the involved processes, important influence …

The combination of ubiquitous and social computing is an emerging research area which
integrates different but complementary methods, techniques, and tools. In this paper, we …

While the analysis of online social networks is a prominent research topic, offline real-world
networks are still not covered extensively. However, their analysis can provide important …